Curing Plaster & Pollen Stains

[NewPoolBuoy]

New to this forum, so please forgive if this is the wrong spot to post this inquiry. Would really appreciate any info / guidance you all can offer.

Wife and I have been so excited about opening up our new in-ground pool this season. Build started late last year and picked up again early this spring. Plaster work was just completed yesterday and we started filling via garden hose immediately after (water delivery scheduled for tomorrow morning).

Then a storm rolled in, with heavy rain and wind gusts. Our excitement turned to horror when we noticed yellow streaks running down the walls and settling on the bottom of the shallow end and spa (where the water has not yet covered the new plaster). Woke up this morning and it was even worse than last night during the storm.

We haven’t been able to get in touch with our PM or the construction company since last night, and I’m kind of freaking out because I’ve been told that new plaster is most vulnerable to stains before it is under water.

I’d like to know if these stains are going to be permanent (pics attached for reference). Is there anything I can / should do now, while it’s still filling? Should we continue filling, or will remediation require draining and resurfacing? Should I cancel the water truck?

I was considering taking a hose with high pressure nozzle and trying to see if that helps clean it off. Wife says to hold on until the builder calls back. I just hate doing nothing when it looks so bad.

Thanks for any info you all can provide!

 

[ajw22]

Welcome to TFP.

You must continue filling the pool.

Was your deck sealed with a sealer or the concrete stained? It looks like something on your deck washed into your pool and spa. The deep area of your pool that does not have decking around it has no stains.

Let your builder deal with the stains after the pool is filled.

 

[NewPoolBuoy]

Welcome to TFP.

You must continue filling the pool.

Was your deck sealed with a sealer or the concrete stained? It looks like something on your deck washed into your pool and spa. The deep area of your pool that does not have decking around it has no stains.

Let your builder deal with the stains after the pool is filled.

Thanks for the quick response. No sealer or stain on the concrete deck, at least not that I’m aware of. We have pollen pods falling from the oaks on our property. Covers everything in yellow dust this time of year. Assumed that’s where the color is coming from.

Will keep the water flowing.

 

[ajw22]

That does not look like pollen but if it is pollen then brushing the pool and chlorine in the water will get rid of it once the pool is filled and you can add chlorine.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

Could be runoff stains from the surrounding soils especially if the rain was intense and the wind was blowing.

Fill the pool and get it cleaned up. Then hold the PB to making the plaster right. The stains can still be dealt with as longs as water gets in the pool. Honestly, it was not smart of the builder to plaster the pool without having water at the ready to fill it. Leaving finished plaster to sit around for days without water is a bad idea on all fronts and begs for Mother Nature to kick you in the _____ ….